He feels he was made a scapegoat, claiming that newspaper Diario Sport "always had something bad to say about me."

"Football is a team sport, and when you lose, it's never one person's fault," he said. "I've watched the game against Juventus again and everyone says that I was the problem.

"It's true that in one of the goals I'm one-on-one and I'm backtracking, but after that there's a pass and you could ask what [Javier] Mascherano or [Gerard] Pique are doing, but no. That's my opinion."